Archive for December, 2008:

I hope that you had a very Merry Christmas!! I had one of my best! Stayed over night at my sister’s house so I could wake up with the kids and go downstairs and see what Santa brought them. They’d all been such good kids this year!

Here are Craig (7 years, until tomorrow!), Alexa (10) and Jacie (5). They are all the little lights of my life!

The reason that it was one of my best, is that during the holidays, I felt more organized and relaxed and got to spend time with family and friends. I had a downline Holiday Potluck, so got to have fun and spend time with some of my wonderful downline, I went to four movies, stamped with friends (until 2:30 am), played Barbies, PlayStation and Wii, and just had a wonderful holidays!

And even though the kids got lots of Christmas presents, they never forget (and help me to remember) that "Jesus is the reason for the season"! Hope you have a Happy New Year and hope to stamp with you in 2009! Much love and aloha! Jacque

This card uses the Deck the Halls stamp set, the Serif Essentials Alphabet dies, the Top Note Die, and the Coluzzle. This card was inspired by my Founder’s Circle Friend, Lisa Freeman.

Let it Snow stamp set. This card was inspired by a Founder’s Circle swap.

Mr Twigster stamp set and Frosty Day Designer Series Paper.

This card uses the Season of Friendship stamp set (I love this set and hope it makes it into the next catalog!) from the Holiday Mini Catalog and the Cute & Curley stamp set from the Curly Label Punch Bundle.

Season of Joy stamp set.

Many Merry Messages stamp set and Holiday Treasures Designer Series Paper. This card design was generously shared with me by one of my fabulous downline, Naoko Page.

The reason that I say finally, is that this blog has been a long time in the making! Too long, but hey, I’ve been busy stamping!!

Through this blog I will be sharing my love of rubberstamping and scrapbooking, and hope to make many new friends!

A little about me: I first started scrapbooking about 25 years ago, back in the good old days of magnetic sticky photo albums, but at least, my photos were in the album, with a little journaling and some memorabilia from each event. I then graduated to using supplies from a well known scrapbooking company and learned how to safely and creatively scrapbook and completed about 30 big albums over the next several years, full of great photos, journaling, stickers, colored card stocks, designer papers, and all kinds of accessories! Those of you that are scrapbookers, know what I’m talking about!

Through a co-worker I was introduced to Stampin’ Up! and after attending a workshop, I just had to have every alphabet stamp set so I could stamp my own titles for each event that I scrapbooked, (I was so tired of alphabet stickers as I was forever running out of letters that I needed for my title and had a bunch of letters left over that didn’t make any words that I wanted to use). I also had to have every wheel to make my own background papers, every stamp set to further decorate my pages, and before long, I realized that I needed to sign up as a demonstrator to support my (fun) habit!!

That was seven years ago, and I’m having more fun than ever stamping and scrabbooking! I have met so many wonderful people that love to craft like me, and with me! I have a very fun and rewarding business with Stampin’ Up! and have a wonderful downline here in Hawaii and on the mainland (even have one downline in Japan/APO). I would never have met so many of these wonderful gals if not for Stampin’ Up!

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